[…] that keen. They thought my education was all rather wasted. During the course of business my father met Castleton Knight who was the head of Gaumont British News, quite a character, an extraordinary chap. He did a lot of extraordinary publicity stunts at a time when newsreels were in enormous compe[…]
[…] 03:01Well, from there, I went to Burndept, which was another radio manufacturer, manufacturing concern, one of the founder companies of the old British Broadcasting Company. And then in turn I went to 'Experimental Wireless', which was one of the first serious radio journals, by which I mean i[…]
[…]was - we had very ancient equipment, it was Gaumont Chronos.Alan Lawson: Blimey!David Robson: They were originally designed for the silent days, with British Acoustic pull-through sound heads on the bottom. Lovely. That part of it was lovely. And a 25 amp - so low-intensity - arcs and the front shut[…]
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[…]her – I’ve got it written down here somewhere – by I can’t remember who, never mind [laughs]. Anyway, they wereinterviewed because they had made films of wildlife for the cinema and so forth, and they were interviewed and showed a few films on television, hence that led to a short series of spe[…]
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[…]track. 3. Independent FrameBL: Independent Frame was a process devised at Pinewood. At the end of the war Mr. Rank, J. Arthur Rank, thought that British films needed mechanising - almost mechanising - more scientific. He got a gang of scientists from Watson Watt, the radar men, down to Pinewood[…]
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[…]laboratory, and this was how we got the things out in ahead of the picture.Y es.Otherwise it was impossible. But of course, it was, this was just the British offshoot. I mean in the, the American side had been doing it for an awful long time.Oh they had been going some years?Oh the American company […]
